With Sharepoint 2010, when you use Internet Explorer you can open an Office document in readonly or in edit mode. Also, when trying to open an Excel file in Firefox/Chrome it will probably open the ugly xslviewer and won’t let you deal with your file.

After searching a bit about it, I found a clue that helped me to find a good solution: on Firefox/Chrome when you click on an Excel file, you’ll now have a modal asking if you want to open it in edit or readonly mode!

To achieve this result you have to insert the below Javascript code somewhere into your masterpage:

I have IE11 on my pro laptop, with Bing, while I want to use Google as my default search engine. However it keeps returning me the page http://www.iegallery.com/addonsie7/ with no way to install another search provider…

I was looking for a simple JavaScript to drag a div element around, and that would work with IE8 and without any third party libraries (like jQuery). It’s been very difficult to find a simple code !

Finally http://news.qooxdoo.org/mouse-capturing saved me with some code… but there was still a problem with IE8 due to the mouse that wasn’t losing capture. So after some research, I’ve been able to create a code that works for IE8 and modern browsers:

This guy created a Firefox extension to force the CORS (access-control) headers from a call. This is very useful when you want to do a JavaScript/AJAX query over another website that doesn’t allow the cross domain calls.

It appears that Firefox doesn’t understand the ISO-8859-15 charset when it’s related to a “plain/text”. So you need to change the charset to ISO-8859-1 to make sure that Firefox will show the special characters for your document.